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git as an sfc member project

Subject: git as an sfc member project

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Jeff King· Feb 24, 2010, 15:44 UTC · lore

A while back I mentioned that we had some leftover GSoC money, and suggested joining the Software Freedom Conservancy as a member project:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/134435

People seemed to think it was a good idea, so I have gone in that direction. The short of it is:

  1. They now have our money. :) I was able to donate the money to them
     before the new year, which makes things much easier tax-wise. The
     money is earmarked for git, contingent upon us becoming a member
     project. If, for whatever reason, we do not do so during 2010, then
     the money reverts to the SFC general fund.
  2. I've exchanged emails with Bradley Kuhn, the president of the SFC.
     He was very positive about git becoming a member project. The SFC
     board has a semi-annual meeting to vote on accepting new member
     projects, and they will be meeting soon. We just need to fill out
     the application materials and get them to Bradley in the next
     week.

The materials are below. They're not very long, and I have tried to fill them out as best I can. There are a few parts that could be elaborated on (mostly related to JGit, which I have included under the umbrella of the git project, and about which I am mostly ignorant). And of course I am open to suggestions and corrections.

-- >8 --
>    * Detailed description of the project.

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do.

Projects using git include the Linux kernel, X.org, Perl, Gnome, Ruby on Rails, Wine, and more.

>    * FLOSS License(s) used by the project

Core git is licensed under GPLv2. JGit, a pure-Java implementation of git, is licensed under the Eclipse Distribution License.

>    * Roadmap for future development.

Git is currently a stable, widely-used version control system. We continue to accept enhancements and bug fixes, with a new major release about every 18 months, minor releases every 2-3 months, and bugfix releases every few weeks. The development remains highly distributed, with 281 individual contributors during the past year.

>    * link to the website.
http://git-scm.org
>    * Link to the code repository.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git
>    * Have you ever had funds held by the project, or by any individual
>      on behalf of the projects?  How and for what did you spend those
>      funds?

Yes. We received funds from participating in the Google Summer of Code in 2008 and 2009. Those funds were disbursed to individual project members, and used for transportation and lodging of members attending the GSoC mentor summit and the GitTogether, our annual mini-conference for developers. The remainder of the funds were sent to the SFC.

>    * Brief history of the project, including past governance decisions.

Git was started by Linus Torvalds in April of 2005. In July of 2005, Junio C Hamano became the maintainer. Junio maintains sole control of the codebase, accepting changes from other developers (both frequent contributers and one-time patch submitters). For participation in the Google Summer of Code, Shawn Pearce has served as the project administrator.

[JGit?]
>    * Existing for-profit or non-profit affiliations, funding
>      relationships, or other agreements that the project or its leaders
>      have with other organizations.
Git has participated in the Google Summer of Code.
[Eclipse affiliations for JGit?]
>    * Names, email addresses, and affiliations of key developers, past and
>      present.

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

[This is basically "shortlog -ns | head". I am happy to make it shorter or longer if people think it should be. Affiliations?]

>    * Information about any past for-profit or non-profit organizational
>      affiliations the project has had.
None.
Jakub Narebski· Feb 24, 2010, 16:07 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> >    * Names, email addresses, and affiliations of key developers, past and
> >      present.
> 
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
> 
> [This is basically "shortlog -ns | head". I am happy to make it shorter
> or longer if people think it should be. Affiliations?]
I wouldn't say I am "key developer"...

In the "A note from maintainer", which is send periodically to git mailing list, and which is also available as MaintNotes file in 'todo' branch in git repository, you have the following description of developers at the end of this file:

-- >8 -- [git.git$ git show todo:MaintNotes] -- >8 --

I [== Junio C Hamano, Git maintainer] would like to thank everybody who helped to raise git into the current shape. Especially I would like to thank the git list regulars whose help I have relied on and expect to continue relying on heavily:

 - Linus on general design issues.
 - Linus, Shawn Pearce, Johannes Schindelin, Nicolas Pitre, RenĂŠ
   Scharfe, Jeff King and Johannes Sixt on general implementation
   issues.
 - Shawn and Nicolas Pitre on pack issues.
 - Martin Langhoff and Frank Lichtenheld on cvsserver and cvsimport.
 - Paul Mackerras on gitk.
 - Eric Wong on git-svn.
 - Simon Hausmann on git-p4.
 - Jakub Narebski, Petr Baudis, Luben Tuikov, Giuseppe Bilotta on
   gitweb.
 - J. Bruce Fields on documentation (and countless others for
   proofreading and fixing).
 - Alexandre Julliard on Emacs integration.
 - Charles Bailey for taking good care of git-mergetool (and Theodore
   Ts'o for creating it in the first place).
 - David Aguilar for git-difftool.
 - Johannes Schindelin, Johannes Sixt and others for their effort to
   move things forward on the Windows front.
 - People on non-Linux platforms for keeping their eyes on
   portability; especially, Randal Schwartz, Theodore Ts'o, Jason
   Riedy, Thomas Glanzmann, Brandon Casey, Jeff King, Alex Riesen and
   countless others.
-- >8 -- [end] -- >8 --
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
Jeff King· Feb 26, 2010, 12:39 UTC · re: Jakub Narebski · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:07:13AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > [This is basically "shortlog -ns | head". I am happy to make it shorter
> > or longer if people think it should be. Affiliations?]
> 
> I wouldn't say I am "key developer"...
Well, you have a lot of commits, anyway. ;)
> In the "A note from maintainer", which is send periodically to git
> mailing list, and which is also available as MaintNotes file in 'todo'
> branch in git repository, you have the following description of
> developers at the end of this file:

Yeah, I thought about that list, but it is very long. Honestly even putting ten people on the list seems long to me. I think git has a very different distribution of committers than many other projects.

-Peff
Jakub Narebski· Feb 26, 2010, 15:56 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:07:13AM -0800, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > > [This is basically "shortlog -ns | head". I am happy to make it shorter
> > > or longer if people think it should be. Affiliations?]
> > 
> > I wouldn't say I am "key developer"...
> 
> Well, you have a lot of commits, anyway. ;)

Well, there are mainly (310 out of 398 in whole lifetime of git) about gitweb, which is rather disconnected subsystem of git, started by Kay Sievers.

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> > In the "A note from maintainer", which is send periodically to git
> > mailing list, and which is also available as MaintNotes file in 'todo'
> > branch in git repository, you have the following description of
> > developers at the end of this file:
> 
> Yeah, I thought about that list, but it is very long. Honestly even
> putting ten people on the list seems long to me. I think git has a very
> different distribution of committers than many other projects.
Well, it at least lists contributors by subsystem...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
Jeff King· Mar 1, 2010, 10:58 UTC · re: Jakub Narebski · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:56:44PM +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> > > I wouldn't say I am "key developer"...
> > 
> > Well, you have a lot of commits, anyway. ;)
> 
> Well, there are mainly (310 out of 398 in whole lifetime of git) about
> gitweb, which is rather disconnected subsystem of git, started by
> Kay Sievers.

True. In the final version I included you, but I marked up people with their areas (so Paul is marked as "gitk", you are "gitweb", I note that Shawn is the git-gui maintainer as well as the JGit maintainer, etc).

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> > Yeah, I thought about that list, but it is very long. Honestly even
> > putting ten people on the list seems long to me. I think git has a very
> > different distribution of committers than many other projects.
> 
> Well, it at least lists contributors by subsystem...

Good point. I kept the list in the application itself more compact, but gave a link to git-scm.com/about (as Julian suggested) for a longer list of committers, and directly linked to Junio's MaintNotes to get more details on what people are working on.

-Peff
Shawn O. Pearce· Feb 24, 2010, 16:22 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

Thanks for getting this started!
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> >    * Detailed description of the project.
> 
> Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system
> designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with
> speed and efficiency.
> 
> Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and
> full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or
> a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do.
> 
> Projects using git include the Linux kernel, X.org, Perl, Gnome, Ruby on
> Rails, Wine, and more.

<plug type="shameless" for="$DAY_JOB"> You could also mention the Android Open Source Project. Every one of those Android handsets on the market... the VCS used by the team that engineered those is Git, preciously because it allows the handset builder to manage their changes.

We wouldn't have 8+ devices on the market without Git.
:-)
</plug>
 
> >    * FLOSS License(s) used by the project
> 
> Core git is licensed under GPLv2. JGit, a pure-Java implementation of
> git, is licensed under the Eclipse Distribution License.
Slightly reworded:
  The core git code is licensed under GPLv2.
  The JGit code, a pure-Java implementation of git, is licensed under
  the Eclipse Distribution License, which is a new-style BSD license.
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> >    * Roadmap for future development.
> 
> Git is currently a stable, widely-used version control system. We
> continue to accept enhancements and bug fixes, with a new major release
> about every 18 months, minor releases every 2-3 months, and bugfix
> releases every few weeks. The development remains highly distributed,
> with 281 individual contributors during the past year.

I'm not sure this really answers their question. I think we should make it clear WTF is going on with Git and its "roadmap". How about this instead?

  Git is a stable, widely-used version control system.  The majority
  of the key functionality is already implemented.  Consequently the
  project does not maintain a formal roadmap, but instead accepts
  a wide range of relevant enhancements and fixes directly from
  the user community.
  Based on prior history, major new releases occur about every 18
  months, minor releases about every 2-3 months, and maintenance
  releases every few weeks.  Development is highly distributed,
  with over 280 individual contributors during the past 12 months,
  and over 730 contributors since the project's inception.
> >    * link to the website.
> 
> http://git-scm.org
http://www.eclipse.org/jgit/
 
> >    * Link to the code repository.
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git
http://repo.or.cz/w/jgit.git
> >    * Brief history of the project, including past governance decisions.
> 
> [JGit?]

JGit was started in 2006 by Shawn Pearce to provide an efficient, portable implementation of Git for Java based applications. The project moved to the Eclipse Foundation in late 2009, but remains a standalone component and is widely embedded in non-Eclipse software.
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> >    * Existing for-profit or non-profit affiliations, funding
> >      relationships, or other agreements that the project or its leaders
> >      have with other organizations.
> 
> Git has participated in the Google Summer of Code.
> 
> [Eclipse affiliations for JGit?]

JGit is hosted by the Eclipse Foundation, and is run in accordance with the foundation's development processes.

 
> >    * Names, email addresses, and affiliations of key developers, past and
> >      present.
...
> Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

Well, if you want to list current affiliations for me, I guess I can now claim:

 * Google employee
 * Eclipse Foundation project committer
 * Apache Software Foundation project committer
Also, JGit has Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> as
a key developer.  If you are listing JGit on the application,
I think he deserves the credit too.
 
-- 
Shawn.
Jeff King· Feb 26, 2010, 12:49 UTC · re: Shawn O. Pearce · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:22:05AM -0800, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> > Projects using git include the Linux kernel, X.org, Perl, Gnome, Ruby on
> > Rails, Wine, and more.
> 
> <plug type="shameless" for="$DAY_JOB">
> You could also mention the Android Open Source Project.  Every one

Heh. I actually pulled most of the list from git-scm.org, and I remember reading Android and thinking it should go on the list, but somehow it didn't...

Fixed.
> > Core git is licensed under GPLv2. JGit, a pure-Java implementation of
> > git, is licensed under the Eclipse Distribution License.
> 
> Slightly reworded:
Thanks, yours is much better.
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> > >    * Roadmap for future development.
> [...]
> I'm not sure this really answers their question.  I think we
> should make it clear WTF is going on with Git and its "roadmap".
> How about this instead?

No, it doesn't answer their question. Yours is much better again (you figured out what I was trying to say and actually said it ;) ).

> [JGit stuff]
All added in.
> Also, JGit has Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com> as
> a key developer.  If you are listing JGit on the application,
> I think he deserves the credit too.
Good point (I obviously didn't even do a shortlog on jgit).
-Peff
Christian Couder· Feb 24, 2010, 17:44 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Wednesday 24 February 2010 16:44:53 Jeff King wrote:
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> A while back I mentioned that we had some leftover GSoC money, and
> suggested joining the Software Freedom Conservancy as a member project:
> 
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/134435
> 
> People seemed to think it was a good idea, so I have gone in that
> direction.
Thanks for that!
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> >    * Names, email addresses, and affiliations of key developers, past and
> >      present.
> 
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

I am very happy to be considered a key developer in your list, but it seems unfair for both Johannes Sixt and Simon Hausmann as they have a higher commit count than I have. So you should perhaps add them too. Or did you count lines of code?

> [This is basically "shortlog -ns | head". I am happy to make it shorter
> or longer if people think it should be. Affiliations?]

About affiliations, I did practically all of my work on Git at home during my free time, so I have none. But I would happy to have one in the future, if some company would be willing to pay me for working on Git or Git related stuff (hint, hint! ;-)

Thanks, Christian.

Jeff King· Feb 26, 2010, 12:25 UTC · re: Christian Couder · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:44:37PM +0100, Christian Couder wrote:
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> > Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> > Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
> > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> > Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> > Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
> > Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
> > Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> > Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
> 
> I am very happy to be considered a key developer in your list, but it seems 
> unfair for both Johannes Sixt and Simon Hausmann as they have a higher commit 
> count than I have. So you should perhaps add them too. Or did you count lines 
> of code?

No, I used "shortlog -nse" because I wanted the email addresses, but that short-changes people who have patches under multiple addresses. Some of them I just removed duplicates (like Linus), but for some people it bumped them off the top 10 list.

I'll fix that in the next iteration.
-Peff
Junio C Hamano· Feb 24, 2010, 18:12 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>>    * Existing for-profit or non-profit affiliations, funding
>>      relationships, or other agreements that the project or its leaders
>>      have with other organizations.

Part of my git time used to be funded jointly by my employer and NEC, but the latter is not anymore. I need to look for sponsors.

Jeff King· Feb 26, 2010, 12:29 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:12:30AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >>    * Existing for-profit or non-profit affiliations, funding
> >>      relationships, or other agreements that the project or its leaders
> >>      have with other organizations.
> 
> Part of my git time used to be funded jointly by my employer and NEC, but
> the latter is not anymore.  I need to look for sponsors.
Thanks, I'll make a note. I split it into:
  [Existing affiliations...]
  Part of Junio Hamano's time on git is funded by his employer.
  [Past Affiliations...]
  Part of Junio Hamano's time on git used to be funded by NEC, but that
  is no longer the case.
Do you want to mention your employer by name?
-Peff
Jeff King· Feb 26, 2010, 12:37 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 07:29:57AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
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> > Part of my git time used to be funded jointly by my employer and NEC, but
> > the latter is not anymore.  I need to look for sponsors.
> 
> Thanks, I'll make a note. I split it into:
> 
>   [Existing affiliations...]
>   Part of Junio Hamano's time on git is funded by his employer.
> 
>   [Past Affiliations...]
>   Part of Junio Hamano's time on git used to be funded by NEC, but that
>   is no longer the case.
> 
> Do you want to mention your employer by name?

Actually, scratch that. Those sections are about _project_ affiliation, and this is really about individual developer affiliation. I'll put it under the "affiliations of key developers section".

-Peff
Jeff King· Feb 26, 2010, 12:59 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:44:52AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> A while back I mentioned that we had some leftover GSoC money, and
> suggested joining the Software Freedom Conservancy as a member project:

Thanks for all of the feedback so far. Here is round 2 of the application, which I hope is close to done. I am cc'ing all of the people under the "Key Developers" list; if you have affiliations you feel should be disclosed, please let me know. And of course any other suggestions or corrections are welcome.

-- >8 --
>    * Detailed description of the project.

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do.

Projects using git include the Linux kernel, X.org, Perl, Gnome, Ruby on Rails, Wine, Android, and more.

>    * FLOSS License(s) used by the project
The core git code is licensed under GPLv2.

The JGit code, a pure-Java implementation of git, is licensed under the Eclipse Distribution License, which is a new-style BSD license.

>    * Roadmap for future development.

Git is a stable, widely-used version control system. The majority of the key functionality is already implemented. Consequently the project does not maintain a formal roadmap, but instead accepts a wide range of relevant enhancements and fixes directly from the user community.

Based on prior history, major new releases occur about every 18 months, minor releases about every 2-3 months, and maintenance releases every few weeks. Development is highly distributed, with over 280 individual contributors during the past 12 months, and over 730 contributors since the project's inception.

>    * link to the website.

http://git-scm.org http://www.eclipse.org/jgit/

>    * Link to the code repository.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git http://repo.or.cz/w/jgit.git

>    * Have you ever had funds held by the project, or by any individual
>      on behalf of the projects?  How and for what did you spend those
>      funds?

Yes. We received funds from participating in the Google Summer of Code in 2008 and 2009. Those funds were disbursed to individual project members, and used for transportation and lodging of members attending the GSoC mentor summit and the GitTogether, our annual mini-conference for developers. The remainder of the funds were sent to the SFC.

>    * Brief history of the project, including past governance decisions.

Git was started by Linus Torvalds in April of 2005. In July of 2005, Junio C Hamano became the maintainer. Junio maintains sole control of the codebase, accepting changes from other developers (both frequent contributers and one-time patch submitters). For participation in the Google Summer of Code, Shawn Pearce has served as the project administrator.

JGit was started in 2006 by Shawn Pearce to provide an efficient, portable implementation of Git for Java based applications. The project moved to the Eclipse Foundation in late 2009, but remains a standalone component and is widely embedded in non-Eclipse software.

>    * Existing for-profit or non-profit affiliations, funding
>      relationships, or other agreements that the project or its leaders
>      have with other organizations.
Git has participated in the Google Summer of Code.

JGit is hosted by the Eclipse Foundation, and is run in accordance with the foundation's development processes.

>    * Names, email addresses, and affiliations of key developers, past and
>      present.

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> (Part of Junio's git time used to be funded jointly by his employer and NEC, but the latter is not anymore.)

Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> (Google employee, Eclipse Foundation project committer, Apache Software Foundation project committer)

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [Linux Foundation?]

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>

[I'm still not happy with this list. For example, Pasky was certainly a key person (and while he is not too active lately, it does say "past and present"). But this list is already getting long, and if they really care they can run shortlog themselves. I am tempted to cut it off after Dscho, where there is a big jump in the number of commits:

  $ git shortlog -ns v1.7.0
  7689  Junio C Hamano
  1356  Shawn O. Pearce
  1092  Linus Torvalds
   710  Johannes Schindelin
   459  Eric Wong
   432  Jeff King
   395  Jakub Narebski
   327  Nicolas Pitre
   322  Paul Mackerras
   272  Johannes Sixt

Maybe a note saying the development is very distributed and that they should look at the repo for full details?]

>    * Information about any past for-profit or non-profit organizational
>      affiliations the project has had.
None.
Julian Phillips· Feb 26, 2010, 13:14 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:59:16 -0500, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>>    * Names, email addresses, and affiliations of key developers, past
and
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>>      present.
> 
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> (Part of Junio's git time used to be funded jointly by his employer and
> NEC, but the latter is not anymore.)
> 
> Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
> (Google employee, Eclipse Foundation project committer, Apache Software
> Foundation project committer)
> 
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> [Linux Foundation?]
> 
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
> 
> [I'm still not happy with this list. For example, Pasky was certainly a
> key person (and while he is not too active lately, it does say "past and
> present"). But this list is already getting long, and if they really
> care they can run shortlog themselves. I am tempted to cut it off after
> Dscho, where there is a big jump in the number of commits:
> 
>   $ git shortlog -ns v1.7.0
>   7689  Junio C Hamano
>   1356  Shawn O. Pearce
>   1092  Linus Torvalds
>    710  Johannes Schindelin
>    459  Eric Wong
>    432  Jeff King
>    395  Jakub Narebski
>    327  Nicolas Pitre
>    322  Paul Mackerras
>    272  Johannes Sixt
> 
> Maybe a note saying the development is very distributed and that they
> should look at the repo for full details?]

You could mention that a more complete list of developers is available at http://www.git-scm.com/about at the bottom of the page?

-- 
Julian
Jeff King· Mar 1, 2010, 10:53 UTC · re: Julian Phillips · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:14:27PM +0000, Julian Phillips wrote:
> You could mention that a more complete list of developers is available at
> http://www.git-scm.com/about at the bottom of the page?
Thanks, that's a good suggestion.
-Peff
Eric Wong· Feb 27, 2010, 06:35 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git as an sfc member project

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
> Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
> Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
> 
> I am tempted to cut it off after
> Dscho, where there is a big jump in the number of commits:
Hi Jeff,

I have no objections to being cut here, as I've never considered myself a key developer.

For the record, I solely own the copyrights to all contributions I've ever made to git (and every other Free Software project I work on). I have never been paid to work on git.

I also do not deny being under the influence of powerful drugs when I worked heavily on git svn.

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Eric Wong

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